[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:24:05AM -0700, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> A somewhat belated reply.....
> 
> > - Of course ConTeXt mustn't be ignored. ConTeXt Mk IV,
> > which is based on LuaTeX, seems to have everything that is
> > missing from LaTeX: a stable, coherent interface, a
> > well-designed architecture that makes LaTeX-style hacking
> > and package clashes unnecessary, XML support,
> > micro-typography, OpenType math, and much more. In most
> > respects it's several decades ahead of LaTeX. I've noticed
> > that newbies have been mentioned several times in this
> > thread: perhaps beginners should ignore LaTeX altogether and
> > use ConTeXt exclusively.
> 
> The problem with ConTeXt (in my opinion, at least) is comes with virtually no pre-coded layout class or style files. On Context-garden I read something along the lines of "We expect that the user knows what (s)he is doing so we don't tell the user how to lay out a document." or something along those lines. That is a great big barrier.

If you ever struggled coercing LaTeX to lay out your document the way
you want it, you will really appreciate this ConTeXt feature.

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer